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What is Service Coordination?
Service coordination is a critical role in the special education world, acting as a liaison between students and the various therapies they need. Service Coordinators are special education teachers that work to ensure that individuals and families have access to necessary resources, services, and by effectively managing their cases across…
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What does an Inclusion Specialist Provide?
An inclusion specialist is an advocate for creating an environment where all children, regardless of their abilities or backgrounds, can fully participate and learn in the classroom. They work tirelessly to ensure that classroom settings, curricula, and educational materials accommodate a diverse range of learning needs and styles. By collaborating…
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What are Executive Function Skills and How Can They Support My Child?
Executive function skills are the mental processes that enable us to plan, focus attention, remember instructions, and juggle multiple tasks successfully. Like the CEO of the brain, these skills are fundamental for learning and development and include self-control, working memory, and mental flexibility. When parents support the development of these…
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What’s so Great about Orton Gillingham?
Orton Gillingham is not a curriculum, rather it is a methodology which falls under the umbrella of Structured Literacy/Multisensory Learning. Orton Gillingham has gained widespread acclaim for its effectiveness in helping individuals with dyslexia and other reading disorders. Its personalized, multisensory technique, which combines visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learning styles,…
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Teachers Need More Support: 5 Ways Families can Help Teachers Before Burnout Takes Over
Teachers are invaluable assets to our children’s future, yet they are facing burnout at alarming rates. To support the educators in our lives, consider these five approaches: 1) Acknowledge their hard work with a simple thank you or a note of appreciation. Shooting your child’s teacher a quick email recognizing…
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What You Need to Know About Structured Literacy
Structured literacy is an instructional approach that is systematic, explicit, and diagnostic in its methodology, making it particularly effective for students with dyslexia and related reading difficulties. It prioritizes the understanding of the building blocks of language including phonemes, morphemes, syntax, and semantics. The goal of structured literacy is to…
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